pipewire

Recipe card from the charly-selkies plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

pipewire – Audio/media server for containers

Candy Properties

Property	Value
Dependencies	supervisord
Service	pipewire (supervisord, priority 5)
Install files	task:, pipewire-wrapper

Environment Variables

Variable	Value
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR	/tmp

Packages

• pipewire (RPM)
• pipewire-pulseaudio (RPM) – PulseAudio compatibility
• pipewire-utils (RPM) – CLI utilities (pw-cli, pw-dump, pw-top, pw-cat, pw-record, pw-play)
• wireplumber (RPM) – session manager

Usage

# charly.yml -- typically included via sway-desktop composition
my-desktop:
  candy:
    - pipewire

Used In Boxes

Part of /charly-selkies:sway-desktop composition.

Related Candies

• /charly-infrastructure:supervisord – process manager dependency
• /charly-selkies:sway-desktop – composition that includes pipewire
• /charly-selkies:wayvnc – VNC server (sibling in desktop stack)

When to Use This Skill

Use when the user asks about:

• Audio in containers
• PipeWire or PulseAudio setup
• WirePlumber session management
• Desktop audio configuration

Related

• /charly-image:layer — candy authoring reference (charly.yml schema, task verbs, service declarations)
• /charly-check:check — declarative testing (check: block, charly check box, charly check live)